Serengeti-From Chicago, Illinois.-Serengeti is an
alternative hip hop artist from Chicago, Illinois. His style is a sharp
departure from most mainstream rap, which he considers depressing and
redudant. He raps with a variety of on-stage personae, most notably
Kenny Davis, his Chicago Bears & White Sox-loving married man,
and peppers his raps with references to his hometown. He's offbeat and
eclectic while being authentic and technical, firmly placing himself in
the alternative rap game and not giving an inch to critics and
skeptics.

Jel-From Oakland, California.-These days, Jel
resides in the Bay Area with the same SP-1200 beatmachine he purchased
as a teen. One of the first musicians to use a drum machine in live
performance like a drum kit with little to no sequencing, Jel has been
a pioneer in the alternative hip hop field. He helped Yoni Wolf to
start Anticon Records, and has been making hip hop beats since 1994. He
has collaborated with Can's Malcolm Mooney, Stephanie Bohm from Ms.
John Soda, Mike Patton, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers,
Black Thought of the Roots, DJ Krush, Mr. Dibbs, Sage Francis, and
Atmosphere.